Boiler-cleaner and water-purifier.



No. 726,346. PATENTED APR. 28, 1908.

LA. RAY. BOILER CLEANER AND WATER PURIFIER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 24, 1902.

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JAMES A. RAY, OF VVICHITA, KANSAS.

BOILER-CLEANER AND VATER PURIFIER.

Application filed A riit, i902.

To ctZZ 1072,0772 it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JAMES -A. RAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boiler-Cleaners and \Vater- Purifiers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention is designed to improve the class of devices used in connection with a locomotive or other type of steam-boiler for purifying the water' bet'ore or after it enters the boiler and removing sediment and scale and prevent the formation of scale by precipitation or by neutralization by means of chemical reagents, or by both, the invention providing a cleaner adapted for operation either by precipitation or by neutralizing the foreign substances in the water, or by both, and converting hard water into soft Water.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result refei'ence'is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

While the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a side view of the front portion of a locomotive, showing the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional detail showing the relative arrangement of the parts. Fig. 3 is a'detail view of the receiving end of the inflow-pipe, showing the float and tele scoping tubular section connected therewith.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by thesame reference characters. V p

The relative position of the cleaner willdepend upon the character of steam-boiler to which it is applied and whether the boiler is fed through the machine, and when used in connection with a locomotive-boiler it will be arranged beneath the running-board 1 or other convenient place, as shown most clearly SPESTFIGATION forming part of LettersPatent N 0. 726,346, dated April 28, 1903.

Serial No. 104,533. (No model.)

in Fig. 1, brackets 2 being bolted to the side of the boiler to support the same.

The cleaner comprises a drum 3, which is preferably oblong and arranged horizontally. Au inflow-pipe 4 communicates with one end of the drum 3 and enters the boiler 5 and is provided with a vertical extension 6, upon which a tubular section 7 is telescopically fitted and attached to a float 8, by means of which the upper end of the telescopic section? maintains a uniform distance below the level of the water in the boiler, which in practice is of the utmost importance. As the level of the water in the boiler changes the float 8 correspondingly rises or falls and the telescoping section 7, connected therewith, similarly moves. A stand-pipe 9 rises vertically from the opposite end of the drum 3 below top of drum, so all oils Will rest in top of drum till blown off and not return to boiler, and is connected with the steam-space of the boiler by means of a steam-pipe 10 and with the lower portion of the boiler 5 by means of an outflow-pipe 11. The several pipes are provided with valves for control- .ling communication. The steam-pipe 10 and outflow-pipe 11 connect with the outer portion of the stand-pipe 9 at a point above the drum 3. A valve blow-0E pipe 12 extends from the lower portion of the drum 3, and When open and steam is admitted into the drum 3 all sedimentis blown off from said drum. A hopper 13 is applied to the upper portion of the inflow-pipe 4 and rests on the drum 3 and is supplied with a valve 14. This hopper admits of chemicals of any kind being supplied to the drum for neutralizing and causing the precipitation in cleaner of any foreign matter which. may be contained in the water supplied to the boiler and circulating through the cleaner and converts the hard water into soft and returns same to the boiler; A hand-hole 15 permits the, introduction of chemicals into the body of the cleaner when this is more desirable than the use of the hopper and also permits the examination of the interior of the machine. When desirable, two machines may be used upon one boiler, one being used between the feeding device and the boiler, through which the boiler may be fed. W'hen so used, there will be no inflow-pipe connections, but only LFI of the In combination, a steam-boiler, a horizontal sediment-drum exterior thereto and comprising the body portion of the cleaner and purifier, a stand-pipe located at one end of the drum and at the upper portion thereof, pipe connections between the upper endof the aforesaid stand-pipe and the steam and water spaces of the boiler, the pipe connecting with the water-space at the lower portion of the boiler being the outflow-pipe, an inflow-pipe disposed atthe opposite end of the drum at the upper part and extending within the boiler, a float-controlled tubular section telescopically fitted to the vertical extension of the inflow-pipe and adapted to be regulated by the rise and fall of the water-level within the boiler, a hopper for containinga chemical reagentlocated at the upper part of the drum adjacent the inflowpipe and having independent valved connections with the inflow-pipe, said connections communicating with the upper and lower portions of the said hopper, and valve-regulating means located upon the inflow-pipe intermediate the above-mentioned valve connections, whereby the quantity of chemical reagent introduced within the drum is determined, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. RAY. [L. s.] Witnesses:

WOODIE RENOE, HARRY MOSIER. 

